My time among the Algerine Captives Yanks

[Macrobius]

https://tunisbayclub.com/index.php?...tupidity-in-the-shoutbox.8/page-11#post-18692

8 minutes ago - Yakub’s Strongest Soldier Yakub’s Strongest Soldier: I’m a former east coast Brahmin fallen on hard times. That is a serious answer
7 minutes ago - Fitz Fitz: r u rlly a subcon

This might help @Fitz



Even the books and the chairs are a dead giveaway.

'The Other Cambridge' class of '83 here (along with Ron Unz, Lisa Randall, and Brad Delong here and not nearly so famous as my peers -- barely middle of the pack really, as becomes a Gentleman. 'A Gentleman's C' as the saying used to be, back when C's were the elite's goal. Teddy would understand.)

Fuck Yeah Bowties. @Yakub’s Strongest Soldier

I was in TS Eliots dorm back in my time (Hollis man). I am of course sometime president of Holmes Hall[1][3] (part of North House -- NoHo -- which has since been renamed.)[2] @Yakub’s Strongest Soldier - you?

We will have no Puritan Comstockery here.

[1]: https://harvardplanning.emuseum.com/sites/520C/pforzheimer-house--holmes-hall (so yes, I was one of the males to take back Radcliffe Quad from their female mismanagement)

[2]: https://pfoho.harvard.edu/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Henry_Holmes

By his death in 1898, Holmes had become fluent in the French, German, and Spanish languages. His New Orleans department store was the largest in the South, with more than 700 employees.

 

[Macrobius]

Subcon story starts around 21:00 in above YT



'Do you live here? You have a foreign accent'

'I've been heah fo' about 350 years'

'He and I are colleagues... we work together in the Mathematics of the computer business'

'The exaggerated style of the Oxford man is the so impossible... damnest fellow I've ever known'

'I speak pure English, not Brahmin'

'John Adams married a girl from Weymouth'

'You were not Bostonian until then'

Fuck. It's worse than hobbits, these East Anglian Dark Elves.

'I was born in Kansas city... from the Kansas city stockyards'

'Made a whale of difference'

'They've lost theah ugly Ahrish brogue... the brogue is gone'

'There may be as many as a thousand... I often wonder'

'I cannot understand my grandchildren when they speak'

'The Southern does something to the Yankee accent... it softens it in some way'

'Interesting Folk Accent'

'I never cared much fo' Groton school' [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Grottlesex

Do noet, Tunis Gentry, that it is Quinzy Mass, not Quin-see.

'Never raise your voice' (33:00) 'Speak with the tongue against the teeth'

'The old idea you went to church twice on Sunday... you had the same deal as we did'

'Elisha or Elijah...'

'My name is Tom Adams... Most of the battle of Lexington occurred in LIncoln...'

'I'm going to bore him moar before it's all dead'

'All over again?'

'Wheah the fighting occuahed in the 19th of April, 1775' (35:00)

'I was boahn in Kansas City Missoura...'

'excepting fo the woah yeahs...'

George was a Junior Fellow. Local Royalty.

We used to be a proper country.